Quotes About Optimism

Must you always see the dark side of everything?' Julia said. 'Someone has to,' Jackson said. 'Yes, but does it have to be you?' Apparently, yes. It did.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.